Reishi and lion's mane endeavor.

[Queen Isabella 1248]

On 12/3/2016 at 9:18 PM, PsychoNanoNaut said:

Nice growth , I like the way the lions mane starts off a little thin lookin then as it mature it gets more dense and looks kinda like each clump has a sharp tail wagging behind it as it swirls. That reishi looks really nice

Hey man, did that PE multispore germinate in that liquid culture? I tried two jars with my PE to see if it would grow but after a few weeks and no growth I tossed it out. My syringe may have been kinda old because I didn't get very good germination rate compared to the amount of spores in the syringe. I got plenty of growth but nowhere the amount I was expecting from the amount of spores I had.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

The PE is from SOS, and it was mostly LC that MS when I got it. But I do see tiny growth in the jar, not as much as the edibles tho. I see what they mean by its very slow.

[Loneshroom 985]

Oh how nice man! 

[Queen Isabella 1248]

You got any bags knocked up yet?

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

I'm still waiting for the damn bags to arrive in the mail. My lion's mane grain was fully colonized and I shook it last night, it's on the recovery now. 

Here's my ghetto cabinet of wonders..

See the tub, that's my first 6qt tub. Was working the casing out for it, it's been colonizing 17 days, (patience and laziness go hand in hand) took a peek inside..

More pics soon on my beloved mushies thread.

[Queen Isabella 1248]

My sawdust jars are slowly but surely colonizing. Gona fruit out the top of jar. I noticed lions mane colonizes much faster in the incubator. But I don't have room for more so I will probably be adding a build to my pe log.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

Finally got the grow bags, will be cooking some substrate soon. This thread's not dead yet..

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Hey Psycho, check it, my first lions mane Fruiting from Coco coir sub with popcorn spawn. Just notice the micropore tape had a lump forming yesterday and it has tripled in size since yesterday evening... First pic when first removed filter tape and fruit had light brown tint but in pic two it lightened up overnight and started developing it's spikey texture. I didn't expect anything from this container but whoohoo I got fruit. Has three tiny specks of verm in one small spot but I can live with that.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

Nice! I got a fully colonized jar of lion's mane, and one almost done of Shittake, my reishi tammed, damn. I cooked a spawn bag last night of small hardwood nugget mulch, verm, gypsum and brf.

gonna break out th GB and dump half quart of the LM grains in it tonight. I need to get out more and pick up some sawdust. Coco coir huh Queen Bella? I got plenty of that.. what's your recipe?

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Well pic number #1the lions mane don't like the coir it's is Fruiting straight from the popcorn. The substrate in the creamer container in pic that is Fruiting is same as quart jar, only I put a thick layer of popcorn spawn under a quarter inch of coir tight against the lid. You can see how the lions mane hugs the popcorn and barely ran through the coir at all in the clear jar, I'm guessing it fruited up through the the coir then out the hole.pic #2 is Shiitake on sawdust, pic #3 is lions mane on sawdust. I used 10 parts sawdust 2 parts shavings ( no chips) 3 percent gypsum and 10 percent wheat bran by volume , soaked 24 hours then strained and added bran, PC 15 psi 90 minutes.

Inoculated sawdust with shiitake and lions mane with 1 CC LC per jar on December 4, made sure they had a thick cc each and kept covered with towel . 

[Queen Isabella 1248]

The coir recipe was the basic coir coffee Tek on here for cubes. 1/4 brick coir, 1/4 cup coffee, 1/4 tsp. Lime. PC 15 psi 60 minutes.

[Queen Isabella 1248]

This is one of five quarts of brf lions man jars, innoculating date on foil. For the first week it looked like it wasn't going to colonize at all but all of a sudden boom. Mycelium everywhere. I did Shiitake too, it is colonizing more quickly than lions mane. 

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Hey bud I wasn't trying to take over your post I just wanted to show you what I was doing. Hope it was OK to post all this. How did it go with your bag innoculate???

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

Not too well, used too much water methinks, trying again. 

Good info tho, and that's what it's all about.

[Queen Isabella 1248]

I did one thing different on my newest test jars of black morel and lions mane. I put a little lime in the soak water for my sawdust. It seems to have a positive effect. I will need to do more testing. I'm getting some wood fuel hardwood pellets next week and make up some actual bags .

[Queen Isabella 1248]

[Queen Isabella 1248]

The in jar Fruiting is brf jar, and the lions mane pic in humid ity tent is this morning so you can see how much it has grown from the other day, this strain of lions mane is one that has tiny little spikes growning off larger ones. The vendor I bought from doesn't have strain name on the site . Do you know which strain of lions mane you have??

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

The Lion's mane i have is Hericium Erinaceus, that's all I know. Lol

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

On 1/1/2017 at 9:15 AM, Queen Isabella said:

So the LM fruited on just popcorn? I will soak or boil hardwood chips, add lime to water and hydrate the oats with it. See if it fruits straight from the oats.. I been too busy and(or) lazy to get sawdust yet.

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Yeah, some mycelium ran through the coir but it fruited directly off the popcorn. Never tried Fruiting on the coir anywhere. 

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Hey Psycho check it out, remember this jar from a few posts ago in this log. It is lions mane popcorn and coir fruit jar. It was developing fruitbodies on the popcorn in the jar but wasn't Fruiting out the top like the coffee creamer tub did. Well I sat it on a shelf in front of the fan I run for my ztubs to get airflow, I only say it there just to watch and see how it developed. I didn't put it in front of the fan for any reason, that just happened to be the only spot for it. Well the fruit in the jar stopped development and started spreading out as mycelium again and it fruited out the top hole that was covered with micropore tape. Caught me by surprise. Here it is.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

That's awesome. Lion's mane is stronger than the average myc. Lots of air flow huh? Noted 

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Hey Psycho, I am growing some lions mane mycelium out on whole oats, it is growing much slower than on popcorn. I found another grower with experience in edibles, he grows woodlovers on popcorn exclusively because they seem to like it so much, This is in line with my experience over the past few months. At least as far as lions mane is concerned. Pink oyster ate whole oats alive, ..

One thing I noticed is that the areas of the whole oats jar that had condensation are where the lions mane mycelium grew much faster,  it seems that LM love extra moisture, the sawdust jars I am growing of LM were half proper moisture and other half had excess moisture, the seven jars with extra moisture grew faster than the others and absorbed the extra moisture by the time they fully colonized, they are consolidating now till I dial in my chamber,.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

Sweet, I have been busier than hell, but finally got back to this project, soaked hardwood chips in water overnight. Drained, PC'd and saved the hardwood juice. Then used the juice to prepare the oats,PC'ed the wood chips and made one jar half and half.All are getting nocced with LM. The oats look juicy and woody. lol

[Queen Isabella 1248]

Watching, I been reading about using the water from the wood soak to hydrate grain or whatever. Nice project to watch. 

Also I just knocked up some jars with the reishi I got from you, didn't test it first, outa plates so I took a chance and did all seven jars. I have some red reishi lucidum so if you need some extra hit me up...